Shared LDAP Address Book (again)

I've been reading some threads, including in the archives relating to sharing addresses - in particular http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=661874
There's a walkthrough of setting this up by Aleksandor Nagy, followed by a post by Roberto Leon detailing the following error he's receiving:
ldapsasl_interactive_binds: Local error (-2)
additional info: SASL(-1): generic failure: GSSAPI Error: Miscellaneous failure (No credentials cache found)
I've followed this through and am getting the same error... Aleksandor or anybody else, any ideas why this may be? I'm using Server 10.4.5 which may possibly be the problem. The original thread has now been archived, hence the new post.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
Dual G5, OSX Server 10.4.5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Hi Jeff,
I was wondering if you could help me with troubleshooting phpLDAPadmin 0.9.8.2?
I need to connect REMOTELY from my laptop to my LDAP/OD Master server on our LAN running on a 10.3.9 Server. I've installed and tested PHP and Apache on my 10.4.6 laptop and both are running fine.
When I go to the following URL (below) on my laptop, the phpLDAPadmin page shows up fine, but I can't log in and I get the following error: Could not connect to "127.0.0.1" on port "389".
172.X.X.X/~myname/phpldapadmin/htdocs/index.php
I've modified the config.php file (path seen below) but phpLDAPadmin still tries to connect to MY laptop at 127.0.0.1
/Users/myname/Sites/phpldapadmin/config/config.php
Is the phpldapadmin config.php file actually located somewhere else on my laptop? Should I be modifying a DIFFERENT config.php file on my laptop? I've modified the settings in the config.php to point to the LDAP Server, but it still tries to connect to 127.0.0.1.
I'm stumped. Any ideas or help would be GREATLY appreciated?
Thanks, Bill

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